Engineering Manager

The Hiring Company is one of the world’s fastest-growing vacation rental technology companies. Their mission is to make booking and hosting holiday homes free of doubt and full of joy, by helping hosts generate more bookings with less work and helping guests find a holiday home they truly enjoy. The team of 700 colleagues from 60+ nations shares a passion for tech, an ambition for constant improvement, and a relentless drive to bring the best experience to more than 40k vacation rental hosts and 4 million annual guests.

Your future team

Join the Guest Experience department as an Engineering Manager, where you’ll lead a dynamic team focused on enhancing the search experience of the users.

• You will be part of the Discovery team in the Guest Experience department. The team is responsible for designing and maintaining the list page of our website, ensuring users can easily find the best vacation rental from our search results.
• Your contributions will help create a seamless and joyful journey for travellers, which will result in increasing conversion rates and customer satisfaction.
• Your team will consist of frontend & backend engineers (direct reports), a project manager and a QA engineer.
• You’ll work closely with the Ranking, Conqueror, and Marketing teams, which manage the machine learning models for property ranking on the list page, booking systems, and our clients' marketing efforts. Together, you’ll ensure a seamless and cohesive user experience.

Tech Stack

• Frontend: Typescript and NodeJS processes in Kubernetes.We use ReactJS, Zustand and TailwindCSS on the client and Express on the server.
• Backend: Java 17/21, Kotlin (Spring Boot).
• Infrastructure: Microservices architecture deployed on AWS Kubernetes (EKS).
• Data Management: PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch 7, Redshift (part of a data lake structure).
• DevOps Tools: AWS, Docker, Jenkins, Git, Terraform.
• Monitoring & Analytics: ELK, Grafana, Looker, Opsgenie, and in-house solutions.

Your role in this journey

• Lead a high-performing cross-functional team, focusing on product innovation, infrastructure reliability, delivery speed, quality, engineering culture, and team growth.
• Ensure your team delivers applications that are highly scalable, highly available, and capable of handling high traffic of up to 1 million unique users per day.
• Support team growth through regular feedback, mentorship, and by recruiting exceptional engineers.
• Work closely with product management, product design, and stakeholders to define the team's goals (OKR’s) and roadmap.
• Collaborate with peers, staff engineers, and other stakeholders to drive strategic technology decisions.
• Lead strategic team-driven projects, identify opportunities, define and uphold quality standards.
• Foster a great team culture aligned with the company values, ownership, autonomy, and inclusivity within your team and the entire department.
• Take full responsibility for delivering impactful features to millions of users annually.
• The role includes dedicating approximately 40-50% of the time as an individual contributor focused on feature implementation

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience building and implementing backend services and/or frontend applications.
• Experience providing technical leadership (e.g., setting goals and priorities, architecture design, task planning and code reviews).
• Experience as a people manager with the ability to build an excellent team culture based on mutual respect, empathy, learning and support for each other.
• Love for building world-class products with a great user experience.

Benefits

• Impact: Shape the future of travel with products used by millions of guests and thousands of hosts.
• Learning: Grow professionally in a culture that thrives on curiosity and feedback. You’ll learn from outstanding colleagues, collaborate across disciplines, and benefit from mentorship, and personal learning budgets—with a strong focus on AI.
• Great People: Join a team of smart, motivated and international colleagues who challenge and support each other. They celebrate wins and keep the culture fun, ambitious and human. The customers are guests and hosts—people they can all relate to—making work meaningful and energizing.
• Technology: Work in a modern tech environment. You’ll experience the pace of a scale-up combined with the stability of a proven business model, enabling you to build, test, and improve continuously.
• Flexibility: Work a hybrid setup with 50% in-office time for collaboration, and spend up to 8 weeks a year from other inspiring locations. You’ll stay connected through regular events and meet-ups across our almost 30 offices.
• Competitive Package: Based on relevant experience and seniority
• Perks on Top: they offer travel benefits, gym discounts, and other perks to keep you energized—but what truly sets us apart is the chance to grow in a dynamic industry, alongside amazing people, while having fun along the way.